Post by Jonathan WilsonI am looking for recommendations for cookbooks that use Australian
measurements, ingredients I am likely to find here in Australia etc.
Anyone recommend any good ones that dont cost a fortune. Prefer also ones
that dont require fancy equipment, expensive ingredients or lots of skills.
That rather depends on what style of cooking you like and where you live - I
can't get a lot of the ingredients listed in some of the more modern books,
but they'd be OK if I lived in the Big Smoke. My recommendations are based
on rural living and reliablility of supply of ingredients.
If you like traditional cooking that is probably seen to be a bit old
fashioned these days (retro?), but where the recipes turn out every single
time and you could cook something for the first time for a dinner party and
know it will turn out, then I would strongly recommend the "Margaret Fulton
Cookbook" - you'll only get it second hand so it should be cheap -plenty at
ABEbooks starting at $4.95. In the same vein are the "Woman's Weekly
Cookbook" and the "New Woman's Weekly Cookbook".
I notice that others have recommended CWA cookbooks but they aren't always
easy to get. The various State CWAs do produce some good books and I have
half a dozen of them but one of best is "The CWA Cookery Book and Household
Hints" produced by the CWA of Western Australia.
I also like Staphanie Alexander's "Teh cook's Companion" and Maggie Beer's
"Maggie's Farm" and "Maggie's Orchard".
Beyond that, any newsagency will have the Woman's Weekly Home Library series
of cookbooks on everything as diverse as little cakes to BBQ cooking and
it's hard to go wrong with them.